Episodes

  • Pine Knob Gets "Weird" and Smashing Pumpkins Pranks The Crowd

    Pine Knob Gets "Weird" and Smashing Pumpkins Pranks The Crowd
    Jul 1 2025
    In this third episode of our fourth season, we`re shooting wide and brining you memories from some of the performers who have played at Pine Knob over the years. Our first guest, however, is playing there on July 2nd, his first show at Pine Knob in eight years. Moving on, we had the chance to talk with Chan Kinchla from the band Blues Traveler, which is performing July 11 at the Meadow Brook Amphitheatre. Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins is another fan of Pine Knob. The band has played there just twice, including a three-night stand with Lollapalooza in 1994 during which the Pumpkins pulled a fun prank on the crowd. Also sharing fond memories of Pine Knob with us is John Oates, who as part of Hall & Oates played the theater 18 times between 1977 and 2021, including several multi-night runs.
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    12 mins
  • Outlaw Music Festival, Simple Minds and Keith Urban

    Outlaw Music Festival, Simple Minds and Keith Urban
    Jun 20 2025
    The summer season got off to a later than usual start this year, but things are up to speed with three consecutive nights of shows ahead — a Friday night visit by the Outlaw Music Festival's 10th Anniversary Tour, headlined by Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, a Saturday date with Simple Minds and a Sunday finish with country start Keith Urban.
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    17 mins
  • Pine Knob opens for the season! What to expect in 2025

    Pine Knob opens for the season! What to expect in 2025
    Jun 10 2025
    Welcome to Hello Pine Knob and our fourth season of talking about Michigan’s oldest and largest amphitheater. The 2025 season gets underway on Wednesday, June 11, with a concert by Grammy-nominated singer Halsey, making her Pine Knob debut and her first Metro area appearance since 2017. That will be the first of 39 shows announced so far, which will take us into early October. To get us ready for that, we’ve invited some guests to take a look at what we can expect for Pine Knob 2025 - 313 Presents President, Howard Handler, Pine Knob poster contest winner, Penny Livingston, and Pine Knob's Senior Director of Premium Sales and Services, Nicole Houin.
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    39 mins
  • Pine Knob closes its doors for 2024

    Pine Knob closes its doors for 2024
    Oct 3 2024
    Pine Knob finishes its 2024 season with a pair of shows on Friday and Saturday, October 4 and 5, by Michigan's own Billy Strings -- a Grammy Award-winning guitarist and Americana star who's celebrating both the arrival of a brand new album, "Highway Prayers," and the arrival his first son. Then, with Pine Knob about to close, we thought we'd offer listeners a look inside some of the backstage operations that keep the place running, during and even out of season. We talk with Elmer Straub, 313 Presents Senior Vice President for Entertainment Production and Operations, and Mike Willart, Senior Vice President of Facilities and Construction for the Detroit Pistons, about how Pine Knob closes after a busy season.
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    22 mins
  • Chats with Godsmack, Seether and Jane's Addiction wrap up September

    Chats with Godsmack, Seether and Jane's Addiction wrap up September
    Sep 26 2024

    The Pine Knob season is nearing the end of its 2024 season, and the next to last weekend of the year will be a loud one.

    On Friday, September 27th, Korn, Spiritbox and Gojira play at 6:30 p.m.

    The next night, Saturday, September 28th, is the annual Riff Fest, which will feature Godsmack, Seether, Asking Alexandria and others.

    Jane's Addiction had to abandon the reunion tour of its original lineup because of turmoil within the band. Before all that came down, however, we spoke to drummer Stephen Perkins about the first Lollapalooza Festival during the summer of 1991, which was one of the most legendary shows in Pine Knob's 52 year history.
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    13 mins
  • Legends of rock take center stage as Staind, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top and Judas Priest get ready for their big shows

    Legends of rock take center stage as Staind, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top and Judas Priest get ready for their big shows
    Sep 11 2024

    Hard rockers Staind will be back at Pine Knob on Wednesday, September 11, for a second show there in just over a year. It will be the heavy rock quartet's seventh show at Pine Knob, and guitarist Mike Mushok tells us why Pine Knob is one of his favorite places to play.

    Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top are continuing their Shaper Dressed Simple Man tour, which the two classic rock acts launched last year and are bringing back to Pine Knob for another stop on Friday, Sept. 13.

    Judas Priest isn't playing at Pine Knob this time, though -- it's at the Michigan Lottery Amphitheater on Tuesday, Sept. 17 -- but the British heavy metal group has its own history at Pine Knob, including an Ozzfest appearance during 2004. Frontman Rob Halford is another who has nothing but good things to say about Pine Knob.
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    17 mins
  • Alice Cooper wants to be "Elected!" and a look inside the business of concert merchandise

    Alice Cooper wants to be "Elected!" and a look inside the business of concert merchandise
    Aug 29 2024

    We're nearing the end of August, but there's still plenty of music coming to Pine Knob -- nearly a dozen shows, in fact, making for one of the busiest post-Labor Day weekend seasons ever.

    Coming this Friday, Aug. 30, is Alice Cooper, the Detroit-born, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shock rocker on his tour with Rob Zombie. We can expect more of the same joyfully macabre entertainment his time, too -- but with a twist.

    Then, a look inside the business of concert merchandise with Bill Blackwell of Blackbird Vending in the latest episode of "Hello, Pine Knob!"
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    27 mins
  • The Doobie Brothers and Bret Michaels get ready to take the stage - Incubus shares their love for Pine Knob

    The Doobie Brothers and Bret Michaels get ready to take the stage - Incubus shares their love for Pine Knob
    Aug 14 2024

    On this week's episode, we talk to a trio of Pine Knob mainstays.

    The Doobie Brothers share why they believe their music has endured so long, Bret Michaels explains why Parti Gras will not only sound good, but smell good, and Incubus tells tales of past Pine Knob performances.

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    19 mins